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At first sight, a window going to some water, the flood of the morning light and the fresh and promising beauty of a summer morning constitute the subject of the picture. The composition type is double picture well-known in the history of painting, or "a picture in the picture", which is a way of expressing a meassage, very often a philosophical one. he world inside and outside the window can be logically brought into connection with the lack of illusions of the man-made environment and the flight of phantasy. The most general interpretation is a contrast between objective existance and the soul's longing for freedom. Bernáth's "Morning" suggests different interpretations. The landscape which is seen from the window is cold, distant and somewhat lifeless on the one hand, and the world of objects with modest appearance, is intimate and lively. Bernáth is an intellectual and rational creature, who is a sensitive dreamer with a world of his own, he breathes life into the lifeless, he gives a personality to obejcts, his faithful companions.
The open window of the picture divides the composition into a foreground and a background: the still life of the foreground, the usual obejcts of everyday life become more beautiful and emphatic in the warmness of sunshine and poetic imagination. The landscape outside the window is distant, cool and strange: it is a counterpoint of the foreground. The warm whiteness of the casement of the window perpendicular to the plane of the wall and the aquarium provides for a transition. Orange coloured patches of golden fish in the aquarium radiating the warmness of an inner world, project liveliness and movement to the splendid blue of the water. The landscape seen from the window keeps returning in Bernáth's works. The contrast of the world inside and outside inspired the artist all through his life.
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